Human Trafficking and High Risk Youth

Congregate Care

Legislation Updates

Coalitions between foster groups and independent kinship caregivers

Explicit connections of the structure of the child welfare systems and the conditions of youth to broader occurring socio-economic conditions [think, James Baldwin's "Every [] Village is my Hometown"

What accountability means and looks like for the child welfare system & how that's meaningfully implemented in a broader national context, explicit comparisons made between states and to other countries

Connections and coalitions with grassroots movement and the beenfits of shifting away from solely focusing on policy, legislations, thinking about what research to action might mean

How do we avoid tokenism in this space? What does it mean to have effective leadership by those with lived experience? Are there more spaces with direct collaboration?